On 8/4/13 9:31 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
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On 8/3/2013 4:52 PM, John H wrote:
I used to take my 18' fishing boat 20 miles
out into the Atlantic when we lived in NE Florida. There were smaller
boats out there, too.
OH, what a bunch of bull****....
You stupid twit, there's all sorts of boats out that far in boats less
than 18' on just about any decent weather day.
Typically, we went out very early in the morning, at dawn, usually, and
came back in in the early afternoon in order to miss the typical mid to
late afternoon thunderstorms. Most of the time in the late spring
through the early fall, offshore boating in small boats was pleasant and
if you worked the trip right, you could avoid most of the annoyances of
the nor'easters, too.
I recall seeing 16' Carolina Skiffs "way out there," and to me that was
risky because those boats didn't have much freeboard. But the CS boats
are just the best deal going for the ICW and for the great fishing in NE
Florida bays, rivers, and just offshore. You don't need much of a boat,
size wise, to enjoy Florida fishing.